Daniel P. Horan OFM, "Postmodernity and Univocity: A Critical Account of Radical Orthodoxy and John Duns Scotus"
English | ISBN: 1451465726 | 2014 | 144 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1451465726 | 2014 | 144 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Nearly twenty-five years ago, John Milbank inaugurated Radical Orthodoxy, one of the most significant and influential theological movements of the last two decades. In Milbanks Theology and Social Theory, he constructed a sweeping theological genealogy of the origins of modernity and the emergence of the secular, counterposed by a robust retrieval of traditional orthodoxy as the critical philosophical and theological mode of being in the postmodern world. That genealogy turns upon a critical pointthe work of John Duns Scotus as the starting point of modernity and progenitor of a raft of philosophical and theological ills that have prevailed since. Milbanks account has been disseminated proliferously through Radical Orthodoxy and even beyond and is largely uncontested in contemporary theology.
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